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512 Liiketaloustiede [50]
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513 Oikeustiede [17]
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5141 Sosiologia [12]
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515 Psykologia [38]
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516 Kasvatustieteet [93]
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Direct Democracy and Policies : Mapping Out Practices and Success Factors
(Åbo Akademi - Åbo Akademi University, 02.07.2021)There is an increased interest in democratic innovations as a way to foster citizens’ direct participation in the decision-making process and counteract the ‘democratic malaise’. Governments around the globe have adopted ... -
Public Libraries Meet Big Data : Roles, Comprehension and Practical Applications
(Åbo Akademi - Åbo Akademi University, 18.06.2021)The world is witnessing the advent of Big Data. Meanwhile, the development of technology accelerates the spread of Big Data. As such, organizations have started to realize that Big Data can be important resource owing to ... -
Physical Punishment, Acceptance of Violence, Tolerance of Diversity, and School Burnout : A Comparative Study of Three Educational Systems in Pakistan
(Åbo Akademi - Åbo Akademi University, 04.06.2021)Aims: The overall aim of the thesis was to investigate attitudes towards different forms of aggression, school burnout, and psychological concomitants among students from three different school systems in Pakistan; namely ... -
Early Numeracy Development : Identifying and Supporting Children at Risk for Mathematical Learning Difficulties
(Åbo Akademi University, 07.05.2021)Early numeracy skills are important for later mathematical learning. Already in kindergarten and the early school years there are large individual differences in children’s early numeracy skills. Early identification and ... -
Lärare som aktörer i praktiker för pedagogiskt utvecklingsarbete
(Åbo Akademis förlag - Åbo Akademi University Press, 16.04.2021)The dissertation is based on the ambition and the need to develop the pedagogical development work at a given university of applied science (UAS). The experience-based assumption that there are untapped resources in the ... -
Gambling in Stock Markets : Empirical Evidence from a Few Important Markets
(Åbo Akademi University, 09.04.2021)This thesis is mostly related to the speculative investment nature of market participants of a few stock markets over the world. Evidence shows that investors are poorly diversified, and they have a preference for lottery-type ... -
Well-being in the light of being very old : Conceptualizations, associations, and variations
(Åbo Akademi University, 09.04.2021)Well-being has been increasingly acknowledged as an important measure of societal progress, as well as within paradigms such as successful, active, and healthy aging. Nevertheless, research focusing on well-being in very ... -
Decentering Care for Mothers : The Politics of Midwifery and the Design of Finnish Maternity Services
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Is it not just common sense to do the right thing? : On corporate (mis)conduct, corporate governance and management control in a Nordic context
(Åbo Akademi - Åbo Akademi University, 19.02.2021)In the wake of a corporate scandal, stakeholders question how the misconduct, such as payment of bribes, enabling money laundering and management fraud, was possible. The organisations, their directors, managers and auditors, ... -
Staying Afloat : Studies on the subjective wellbeing and coping strategies of families with children in Finland
(Åbo Akademi - Åbo Akademi University, 29.01.2021)Finland has become known for its generous and comprehensive family policy. However, during the 2010s, the economic recession created worry and insecurity amongst a number of families with children; in times of recessions, ... -
Dancing/Reading/Writing : Performative Potentials of Intra-Active Teaching Pedagogies Expanding Literacy Education
(Åbo Akademi - Åbo Akademi University, 11.12.2020)This thesis contributes to the fields of creative dance and literacy education by developing teaching pedagogies that integrate creative dance into students’ reading and writing processes and by exploring what is produced ... -
FICSA : The Finnish Investigative Instrument of Child Sexual Abuse : Machine Learning Applied to Criminal Investigations
(Åbo Akademi University, 04.12.2020)Utredningar av misstänkta sexuella uttnyttjanden av barn (SUB) är krävande. Medan förekomsten av SUB minskat över de senaste åren så har antalet anmälningar ökat. Ofrånkomligen är en del av anmälningarna ogrundade vilket ... -
Finnish mathematics curriculum materials and teachers´ interaction with them in two cultural-educational contexts
(Åbo Akademi University, 04.12.2020)Previous research has shown that teachers are central actors in teaching, but the great importance of the use of curriculum materials for teachers has also been highlighted. However, much of the research on curriculum ... -
Lärarlegitimation som facklig professionsstrategi : En analys av den svenska legitimationsreformen som argument för lärares (re)professionalisering
(Åbo Akademis förlag - Åbo Akademi University Press, 25.09.2020)Avhandlingens syfte är studera läraryrkets professionalisering i Sverige genom att särskilt undersöka hur de fackliga organisationerna, Lärarnas Riksförbund och Lärarförbundet, argumenterat för införande av lärar-legitimation. ... -
Shaking Hands with the Past : Origins of the Political Right in Central Europe
Commentationes Scientiarum Socialium : 50 (The Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters and The Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, 1996) -
Lens of Emotion : Emotion Regulation and Out-Group Attitudes
(Åbo Akademi University, 04.06.2020)Emotions play an important role in intergroup attitudes, and more broadly, in intergroup relations. Emotions, and intergroup emotions more specifically, arise based on an individual’s appraisal of an out-group situation, ... -
Witnessing an Unfamiliar Person : The Effects of Distance, Lighting, Age, Line-up Type, and Line-up Position on Eyewitness Accuracy
(Åbo Akademi - Åbo Akademi University, 03.06.2020)In criminal cases, DNA evidence is considered circumstantial evidence, whereas an identification by an eyewitness, after having observed a perpetrator commit a criminal act, is considered direct evidence of a suspect’s ... -
Sex Differences in Aggression within Adult Samples in Ghana
(Åbo Akademi University, 15.05.2020)Previous studies into sex differences in aggression have suggested that in most patriarchal African nations, sex roles, and traditional beliefs have predisposed men and boys to dominate women. This circumstance has ... -
De varumärkeskluvna : Varumärkesarbete och värdegrundsretorik i i ideell och offentlig verksamhet
(Åbo Akademis förlag - Åbo Akademi University Press, 14.05.2020)This thesis explores branding within the Swedish nonprofit and public sectors. Using an hermeneutical approach and drawing on theories of branding, stakeholder theory and new institutional theory, its focus is strategic ... -
A Jungian Theory of Mind : Individuality, lost, gained, and transcended
(Åbo Akademi University, 08.05.2020)Every time an individual or a society gets into an inner or outer conflict, it questions its worldview and recognised values, and the personal and collective identity are activated on an unconscious level. Deep changes in ...
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